Question re. crawlable textual content

[Dino64]

I have a client who is struggling to fit crawlable textual content on their pages. I'm wondering if we can add a "Learn More..." feature that works as a mouse over pop up. When a page visitor runs their curser over the link or button, a window bubble pops up and textual content about the page will show.

Not knowing much about code, can text in this format be crawlable by search engines and count as unique and relevant content?

Thanks,

Dino

[AlanBleiweiss]

You can use various methods to achieve this goal - either as a pop-up or where the text is initially hidden, but then the text area expands for those who want to read more.  The critical key is to ensure that whatever method is used has the actual contents of that text directly contained within the source code for the page, and does not instead, pull the text from a separate file.  Here's just one example, using pure CSS, no JavaScript (since JavaScript is something Google tries to figure out but is imperfect in doing so).

Ultimately, you'd implement this, then want to test to be sure the end result works so that the content is seen by Googlebot.

[Dino64]

Right on, Alan. That's the answer I was looking for. We will give this a try. Thanks for you help!

[AlanBleiweiss]

Glad to be of service!